Improvement in devices for holding braid and similar articles in packages



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- Packages;

No. 207.114 Patented ug. 20,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENTIOFFIGE.

SIMON B. FLFISHER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR HOLDING BRAID AND SIMILAR ARTICLES INPACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,1 14, dated August20, 1878; application filed June 24, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON B. FLEIsHER, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Packing Up Braid for the Market, which improvement isfully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing,in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bolt 0f braid put up in apackage for the market. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thewrappingband. Fig. 3 is a side view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a view showingin detail the operation of windingthe strap-band B round a bolt ofbraid. Fig. 5 is a modified form of the wrappingband.

Similar letters of reference designate the several parts.

The nature and object of my invention are to provide a device forpacking and putting up braid and similar articles for the market so thatit can be exhibited and conveniently handled.

My manner of putting up the articles named consists, first, of providinga long straight slip, O, of material having requisite rigidity, forminga central core. Upon this slip I fold the braid continuously upon itselfuntil it forms a long bolt or stick, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4.

The braid may be wound or folded in a single width, or may have two ormore widths placed side by side, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

After the requisite quantity of material has been wound round thecore-slip 3, layer upon layer, I confine it thereon by means of a strap,B, folded in a peculiar manner, as hereinafter described.

Ordinarily such a strap would reach simply round the exterior of such abolt, forming, as it were, a ring-band, which could be moved from itsnormal central position and be slipped off at either end. It isnecessary for some purposes to exhibit to purchasers the end a of thebraid, so that its texture and thickness can be closely examined, andthe fibers unraveled for the purpose of ascertaining the materials ofwhich they are composed.

In order to do this the bandB must be I slipped from its normal centralposition, and

the end a, which it covers, be exposed to view. In doing this, for thisor other .purposes, there is danger that the strap-band B may be pushedoff either end, and in that casethe whole length of the braid would fallapart and the core 0 would come out.

My device provides that, whether the stripband B is either by accidentor design pushed toward either end, it will not pass off the stickbolt.

In order to effect this object I commence to form the strap-band B bylaying one of its ends either fiat on the core 0 or between two of thelayers of the braid. It is then passed round the sides, top, and bottomof the combined layers of braid, and the other end is fastened,preferably with adhesive sub stance, to the outer side of the stfipatb.Fig. 2 shows a strap-band formed in this manner. When a strap-bandmadein this manner is affixed, as described, to a bolt stick of braid,it can readily be moved toward either end, as it only loosely encirclesthe combined layers of braid; but the interior end, I), being foldedover interiorly, will form a stop, which will not pass beyond theabutting turn a of the central layer of braid.

A modified form of my invention is shown in Fig. 5, by which I amenabled todispense with the use of any adhesivematerial upon the band.In this modification the ends b of the wrapping-band are folded overinteriorly upon the core 0, or between layers of the braid, and the bandis connected together in the following manner: The band B, Fig. 5, isprovidedat one end with a tongue, T, and at the other end with a slot,S. It is folded round the braid, as before described, the portion I) ofthe slotted end being placed interiorly fiat upon the core or betweenlayers of the braid. The tongue end T is then brought round the bolt ofbraid, and is passed through the slot S, on the opposite end, forming aninterior stop-joint, which will impinge against the abutting turn a ofthe central layer of braid, the same as in the band that is con nectedwith adhesive substance.

What I claim is- 1. A bolt of braid or similar articles, con sisting ofcontinuous layers, folded 1engthwise over an interior core-slat,confined with -2. The surrounding strap B, for binding atransversesurrounding sliding strap, having bolts of braid, having tongue T andslot S, one of its ends folded interiorly under or besubstantially asdescribed.

tween the layers, forming an impinging stop- SIMON B. FLEISHER. joint,the whole adapted to hold the material Witnesses:

in place on the interior core, substantially as BENJ. T. TELLER,

described. E. M. PIoKoP.

